Ba Family History
Ba Name Meaning
West African (mainly Senegal and Mauritania): Fulani name from the Mandinka adjective ba(a) ‘big great’. Compare Bah 1 see also Balde Muslim: abstracted as a surname from bā a dialect form of Arabic Abu ‘father’ used in compound surnames such as Bā Wazīr and Bā Ṭarafi. Vietnamese (Bá): from the Chinese surname 柏 see Bai Chinese: Mandarin or Cantonese form of the surname 巴: (i) said to be borne by descendants of Fu Xi a legendary king who lived prior to the Xia dynasty (i.e. before 2070
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022